Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year C: 1st Reading

Sirach 27:4-7

When a sieve is shaken, the husks appear;
   so do one’s faults when one speaks.
As the test of what the potter molds is in the furnace,
   so in tribulation is the test of the just.
The fruit of a tree shows the care it has had;
   so too does one’s speech disclose the bent of one’s mind.
Praise no one before he speaks,
   for it is then that people are tested.